Responses to Covid-19 threats: An evolutionary psychological analysis

• Main Authors: COLARELLI, Stephen M., MIRANDO, Tyler J., HAN, Kyunghee, LI, Norman P., VESPI, Carter, KLEIN, Katherine A., FALES, Charles P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Health information response; Human behaviour; Health Communication; Health Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4160; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5419/viewcontent/Responses_to_COVID_19_Threats_An_Evolutionary_Psychological_Perspective_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Responses to Covid-19 public health interventions have been marginally effective. For example, only 64% of the US population has received at least two vaccinations. Because most public health interventions require people to behave in ways that are evolutionarily novel and are mismatched with evolved...